"I never really sounded like Bird, but that……" — Jackie McLean

"I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing so much. But Mingus was the one that really pushed me away from the idea and forced me into thinking about having an individual sound and concept. That's what I got from Mingus."

— Jackie McLean

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2 Quotes by Jackie McLean

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I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn…

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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
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